Eurobarometer 55.1OVR: Young Europeans, April-May 2001

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Label

Eurobarometer 55.1OVR: Young Europeans, April-May 2001

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Christensen, Thomas

Author

• Christensen, Thomas

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• attitudes
• career goals
• computer use
• foreign workers
• leisure
• memberships
• public opinion
• racial integration
• European Union
• social integration
• social issues
• sources of information
• survey
• travel
• young adults
• youths
• social change
• Information resources
• Internet
• Youth

Genre

• survey

Summary

This round of Eurobarometer surveys diverged from a focus on standard measures. During the fieldwork for Eurobarometer 55.1 (see EUROBAROMETER 55.1: GLOBALIZATION AND HUMANITARIAN AID, APRIL-MAY 2001 [ICPSR 3361]), an oversample of young respondents, aged 15-24, was added to the basic sample in order to obtain a total of at least 600 young respondents per country. An additional set of questions was administered to these young respondents eliciting responses on a number of topics, including the meaning and the importance of the European Union, areas in which the EU should be more or less active, sources of information about the EU, important aspects of society making participation of young people in society easier, suggestions for better integration of minorities into society, and opinions on foreigners living in the respondent's country. These young respondents were also asked about their leisure activities and organizations to which they belonged, their use of the Internet, use of computers and other electronic equipment (e.g., PC, CD, DVD, mobile phone), languages they spoke and would like to learn, countries they had visited in the last two years and reasons for the visits, employment considerations and money sources, and problems they would have if they wanted to study or work abroad. Respondents not underage were asked if they favored or were against a number of issues such as euthanasia, the death penalty, compulsory AIDS testing, premarital sex, cloning, etc. Demographic and other background information collected includes respondent's age, gender, nationality, marital status, left-right political self-placement, occupation, age at completion of education, household income, region of residence, and type and size of community. For a comparable survey in this series, see EUROBAROMETER 47.2OVR: YOUNG EUROPEANS, APRIL-JUNE 1997 [ICPSR 2091]